Aphorisms

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man, and often makes the most foolish clever.

We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Love: a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.